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Matthew Zoll

Matthew Zoll (Born 1968) is active/lives in Maryland.  Matthew Zoll is known for Still life.

Matthew Zoll was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1968.  From a very early age Matt acquired a liking for fine art and especially realism.  Throughout his childhood, Matt drew and painted with the encouragement of his parents.  At the age of thirteen he was introduced to oils and began studying under artist Bob Browne.  His new teacher kept him from painting, and for the first year Matt only drew from casts with charcoal.  Around this time, Matt recalls taking a trip to the Brandy Wine River Museum, seeing exhibits from artists N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth.  It was at this moment when Matthew knew he wanted to dedicate his life to becoming a painter.

After several years, Browne took notice to Matthew's advanced abilities in painting and encouraged him to enroll in The Schuler School of Fine Arts in Baltimore. Matthew graduated high school, took the advice from Browne, and in the fall of '87 he began his formal training at Schuler's. While there, Matt   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2765 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Matthew Zoll

   Matthew Zoll  Born:  1968 - Baltimore, Maryland
Known for:  Still life

Biography from Michael Hollis Fine Art

Matthew Zoll was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1968.  From a very early age Matt acquired a liking for fine art and especially realism.  Throughout his childhood, Matt drew and painted with the encouragement of his parents.  At the age of thirteen he was introduced to oils and began studying under artist Bob Browne.  His new teacher kept him from painting, and for the first year Matt only drew from casts with charcoal.  Around this time, Matt recalls taking a trip to the Brandy Wine River Museum, seeing exhibits from artists N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth.  It was at this moment when Matthew knew he wanted to dedicate his life to becoming a painter.

After several years, Browne took notice to Matthew's advanced abilities in painting and encouraged him to enroll in The Schuler School of Fine Arts in Baltimore. Matthew graduated high school, took the advice from Browne, and in the fall of '87 he began his formal training at Schuler's. While there, Matt immersed himself in the studies of anatomy, watercolor, cast drawing, sculpture, portraiture and still life.  During his four years at Schuler's, largely influenced by teachers Ann Schuler and Will Wilson, Matt began concentrating on still life and classical realism. He was taught the painstaking techniques of the old Flemish masters, applying and manipulating the Flemish medium. Matt discovered that he had an appreciation for drawing and still life; and insists that they are the foundation of all art.

Through the teachings of Schuler and Wilson, Matt learned that he could always take his painting a little further in contrast and detail.  The Schuler's provided Matthew with the formulas of the Flemish medium rediscovered by Jacques Maroger.  By hand grinding powder pigments with black oil, made from linseed oil and litharge, Matthew achieves remarkable color and vibrancy to his paintings.  The Flemish medium, also made in the studio, allows the artist to produce a rich luster and an intense luminosity throughout his paintings. 

Matthew applies the techniques of the masters to his contemporary realist paintings. The techniques are tried and true and have not changed for centuries; but life, art and artists do. Matt uses classical subjects and places them in more contemporary settings and compositions. This classical style of realism is not to be confused with photo realism. Matthew feels that painting strictly from life he can achieve a certain mood and drama to his work that is sometimes overlooked in photo translations.  Matthew was accepted into his first gallery at the age of eighteen and had his first one-man show at twenty-two. Since then he has sold out six one-man shows.


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